Third Wave Coffee Raises $35 Mn In Series C Funding Round Led By Creaegis
Third Wave Coffee is present in several major Indian cities, including Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Gurgaon, Pune, Hyderabad, Noida, Coonoor, and Chandigarh.
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A busy day with six new fundings totaling $200M for NYC startups...:
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Third Wave Coffee Raises $35M In Series C Round
Creaegis led the round for the quick-service coffee and food brand, with participation from existing investor WestBridge Capital. :
MUMBAI: The quick-service coffee and food brand Third Wave Coffee has raised $35 million in a Series C funding round led by Creaegis. The round also saw participation from existing investors including WestBridge Capital and angel investors. The company will utilise the capital for country-wide expansion, bolstering its supply chain, enhancing capabilities, and investments in technology, it said.
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Risks But Potential Rewards Remain In Private Company Investing | Financial Times
The easy money era for private equity is over. :
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Adventurous Investor news every morning. Over the past few years, I’ve written about why private investors might want to invest in private assets and especially equity, usually through a listed investment trust. At its very simplest, there are more high-growth businesses that are choosing to avoid the public markets and opting to stay private for longer, aided by private equity funds.
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The Importance Of Private Markets
But beneath the constant stream of public company news, the investable universe of publicly traded companies in the U.S. continues to shrink and grow older – declining by almost 50% over the last 25 years, from 8,090 in 1996 to 4,266 in 2019.1
Moreover, only 13.8% (2,829) of U.S. companies with annual revenues greater than $100 million are public, leaving public investors closed off from more than 18,000 private companies that operate at that scale.2
The implications of this trend are profound.